| A | B |
|---|
| HOMER | WROTE THE ODYSSEY |
| MAY HAVE BEEN BLIND | HOMER |
| HOMER MAY HAVE BEEN A | WOMAN |
| ATHENA | GODDESS OF WAR AND WISDOM |
| ODYSSEUS IS AN | EPIC HERO |
| THE GENRE OF THE ODYSSEY IS | EPIC POEM |
| 20 | THE NUMBER OF YEARS ODYSSEUS IS AWAY FROM HOME |
| 10 | THE # OF YEARS AT WAR |
| GREECE FOUGHT | TROY IN THE TROJAN WAR |
| ACHILLES | KILLED HECTOR |
| PARIS | KILLED ACHILLES |
| PRIAM | KING OF TROY |
| HELEN | MARRIED TO MENELAEUS |
| AGAMEMNON | MENELAEUS' BROTHER |
| ITHACA | ODYSSEUS HOME |
| Aeolus | keeper of the winds |
| Alcinous | King of the Phaiacians |
| Antinous | leader of the suitors. |
| Argos | Odysseus's old hunting dog |
| Calypso | island nymph on Ogygia |
| Charybdis | A whirlpool which draws vessels to their doom |
| Circe | Daughter of the Sun; goddes of the wild; enchantress |
| Eumaeus | keeper of Odysseus' swine |
| Eurylochus | Husband of Odysseus' sister; sailor with Odysseus |
| Eurymachus | Son of Polybus/suitor from Ithaca |
| Hades | ruler of the underworld |
| Hermes | used his ingenuity and abilities to persuade the nymph Calypso to release Odysseus |
| Laertes | aged father of Odysseus |
| Penelope | Odysseus's faithful wife |
| Persephone | queen of the underworld |
| Polyphemos | Son of Poseidon/giant Cyclops and ogre. |
| Poseidon | God of the Sea |
| Scylla | Daughter of Crataiis; six-headed monster and man eater |
| Sirens | Fatal beguilers of men with their singing |
| Teiresias | Blind prophet of Thebes. |
| Telemachus | Son of Odysseus and Penelope |
| Zeus | king of the gods and ruler of the sky |
| Antinous | the most arrogant and meanest suitor |
| Eumaeus | the swineherd |
| Eurycleia | Odysseus' old nurse |
| Philoteus | the cowherd |
| Helen | the face who launched a thousand ships |
| Aeaea | home to Circe |
| Calypso | a nymph who keeps Odysseus for seven years |
| Charybdis | the whirlpool monster |
| Circe | she turns Odysseus' men into pigs |
| Cyclops | a one-eyed giant |
| Scylla | she always eats 6 men at a time |
| Olympus | the mountain home of the gods |
| Zeus | the most powerful god |
| Antinous | the most arrogant and meanest suitor |
| Argos | Odysseus' old dog |
| Eumaeus | the swineherd |
| Eurycleia | Odysseus' old nurse |
| Laertes | Odysseus' dad |
| Penelope | the queen of Ithaca |
| Philoteus | the cowherd |
| Helen | the face who launched a thousand ships |
| Menelaus | King of Sparta; husband of Helen |
| Aeaea | home to Circe |
| Alcinous | the king of Phaecia; Nausicaa's dad |
| Calypso | a nymph who keeps Odysseus for seven years |
| Charybdis | the whirlpool monster |
| Circe | she turns Odysseus' men into pigs |
| Cyclops | a one-eyed giant |
| Hades | king of the Land of the Dead |
| Persephone | queen of the Land of the Dead |
| Nausicaa | the princess of Phaeacia |
| Polyphemus | the son of Poesidon |
| Scylla | she always eats 6 men at a time |
| Sirens | sea nymphs whose beautiful music lures sailors to their deaths |
| Teiresias | a famous blind prophet who Odysseus meets in the Land of the Dead |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom, war, peace, and crafts |
| Hermes | the messenger god |
| Olympus | the mountain home of the gods |
| Poseidon | god of the sea and earth |
| Zeus | the most powerful god |
